MATERIAL  Stoneware porcelain artwork

DIMENSIONS 16cmx11cm

EDITION Original

OTHER INFORMATION

Kintsugi is the centuries-old Japanese art of repairing broken ceramics using gold. Instead of hiding the cracks, the technique highlights them! Celebrating an object's history and treating breakage as part of its beauty rather than its end.

This art form stood out to me while making ceramic versions of section 28 - the law that saw teaching of gay relationships banned. I grew up during this law and feel the loss of knowing about gay people, instead feeling shame. Though now I’m older I feel like I have put gold on the cracks of any trauma.

Made from porcelain rolled thin by hand that will last forever. I like to think of these paper style objects are artefacts document the present and nostalgic past.

I’m so happy with how these have come out and have worked hard to make each one striking and well finished. The high quality smooth white clay is fired twice up to 1,260 degree which makes the underglaze pencils decoration look so vibrant with the papery wobble and lines baked into the piece.

Stoneware porcelain (with hook on back).